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Letter to the editor: Government got us into this mess

GOVERNMENT GOT US INTO THIS MESS

On every economic measure, our nation is in deep trouble. We The People are broke, out of work and enslaved to a monster bureaucracy. The federal government we established to serve us now regulates and controls us.

Politicians promise to cut government spending as they continue to spend like drunken sailors. They decry the national debt, yet added $2 trillion in just one year. The Federal Reserve gave $7 trillion to bail out European banks.

Americans are proud and self-reliant. We realize the severity of the problem and we want to roll up our sleeves…get ourselves back on a firm financial footing. Yet the monster in Washington, D.C., does everything it can to keep us in bondage. We have vast natural resources, but government regulation keeps energy production — and the jobs it would create — in limbo. Endless unemployment payments, food stamps and other welfare programs shower us with “free money” that reinforce government subservience. The once productive American worker is humiliated … our work ethic is demoralized.